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TIL A 27 year old Scotsman survived 382 days without eating

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V7r4 TIL That in India there is a precariously balanced boulder on the edge of a slope named “Krishna’s Butter Ball”.
l7REV TIL: Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, is credited with creating one of the earliest professional armies in the world, ruling from 359-336BC. Philip’s reforms led to Macedonia becoming hegemon of the Greek peninsula, paving the way for Alexander’s conquest of Persia by 326 BC.
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W74RN TIL that, following WW2, a German engineering company - JA Topf & Sons - continued in business under different names until 1996. JA Topf & Sons designed and built gas chambers and crematoria ovens for Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other concentration camps.
OGAwe TIL of Bruno Lüdke, a mentally disabled man who was made to confess dozens of murders and framed as serial killer by the Nazis who ultimately killed him in medical experiments